Mirror Images:
J. Douglas Allen Taylor writes
that the upswing in black-on-black
violence is an ingrown abscess of
self-hate, a product not only of
white-on-black violence but of
the white-on-white mayhem
which came before it.

Copping to Pressure: San Jose's police auditor blows the whistle on off-duty cops making extra cash by renting themselves out to nightclubs. Also in Metro, a witness to the Oasis brawl that left a 21-year-old man dead says off-duty cops fell down on the job.